CTA rides down almost 3% in 2014, despite record rail use

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

CTA ridership fell almost 3 percent last year, despite a record number of customers who used the system’s L trains.

An 8 percent tumble in rides by bus customers — who far outnumber rail riders — dragged down the CTA’s systemwide ridership for 2014, Chicago Transit Authority data released Friday indicated.

The CTA blamed the 2014 drop in bus rides in part on January’s and February’s “polar vortex.”

Blaming the weather for the failure of socialist transportation.